Universal indexing device



Oct. 17, 1944. A. A. sAwlcKl l 2,360,588

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UNIVERSAL INDEXING DEVICE Arthur A. Sawicki, Gates Mills, Ohio, assigner to Jack & Heintz, Inc., Bedford, Ohio, a corporation of Ohio Application March 20, 1943, Serial No. 479,855

1 Claim.

This invention relates in general to indexing in indexing devices for work holding devices.

One of the primary objects of the invention isl to provide an indexing device that will be Simple in construction and operation and capable of easy adjustment and certainty of alignment of the work with the tool so as to permit the alignment and tooling of a certain piece work from various angles without removing the work from the index turntable.

With the foregoing and other ob-jects in view, the invention resides in the combination of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter set forth in the following specification and appended claim, certain embodiments thereof being illustrated inthe accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of a base, the work supporting turntable and the indexing member, the tool being shown diagrammatically out of engagement with the work;

Figure 2 is a similar showing in front elevation, or at right angles to Figure l;

Figure 3 is a top plan view of the same; and

Figure 4 isa fragmentary top plan View, showing the turntable being moved part way from one position to another.

Referring more particularly to the drawings,

upon the base I, attached to a support 2, is a turntable 3 mounted for rotation about a shaft 4 provided with a bushing 2 I.

The work 5 may be removably secured to the turntable by clamps 6 heldin place by bolts 1. The turntable is shown to be rectangular in form as a means of illustration, but it must be understood that it may be of any convenient shape. The point is that in the present showing the rotatable turntable permits four sides of the work to be separately aligned with the tool 8. The indexing and alignment is accomplished in the following manner. In the four edges near the four corners of the turntable are inserted four adjustable set screws 9, I0, II and I2 protruding to the desired predetermined extent. Secured to the base by means of a bolt I3 so as to be rotatable is an index block I4. The block is provided with two adjustable set screws I5 and I6 protruding from opposite sides to a predetermined desired extent. The base also has an adjustable protruding set screw I'I. The index block is spring biased in a clockwise direction by a tension spring I8 secured to the block and a pin I9 carried by the base. This normally brings the block 'and a work supporting set screw I5 into abutment and alignment with base set screw II. In the drawings, it also brings the block set screw I6 into abutment and alignment with the turntable setscrew 9. This brings the particular side portion 5A of the work into alignment with tool 8 for reaming or boring or other tool operation. In order to maintain the turntable in such adjusted position, a simple turning of a nut 20 clamps the turntable in set position. v

As soon as the required tooling operation has been completed on the side portion 5A, the tool is withdrawn and nut 20 loosened. The turntable is then easily and readily rotated in a clockwise direction against the action of spring I8, as illustrated in Figure 4, until the index block set screw I6 comes into abutment and alignment with the turntable set screw IU at which time the side portion 5B is in proper aligned position to be engaged by the tool 8 for tooling operation which is consummated after tightening nut 20. This operatiori is repeated so as to separately align the two other turntable set screws I I and I2 into alignment with the block set screw I6 and the other two sides of the work into proper alignment with the tool for machining operations.

With the various set screws being adjustable the alignment of the four sides of the work separately with the tool may be readily accomplished and four machining operationscompleted in the minimum amount of time and effort.

I claim:

In combination in an indexing device, a base turntable rotatably mounted thereon, means for automatically align- -ing said turntable in a plurality of separate positions for engagement with an operating tool upon a rotation of said turntable, and a clampingdevice for releasably clamping said turntable and work in such adjusted positions, a spring biased index block pivotally mounted on said base, an adjustable limiting stop therefor carried by said base, resilient means extending between said block and said base to maintain said block in engagement with said stop, a plurality of adjustably and predeterminedly spaced abutment members carried by said turntable and an adjustable abutment member carried by said block to contact rst named abutment members and automatically align said work with said tool in any one of a plurality of adjusted positions.

Y ARTHUR A. SAWICKI. 

